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JUST ONE YEAR OF MORGANS Finding the Bargain Point in 1921

We have looked at the Morgan dollar series in these Bargain Collector columns before, but in a rather broad way. The series is a big one and may very well have been studied, examined and graded in more detail than any other series of classic United States silver. So it might be worth our while to examine these big, silver disks in a more focused manner. Let’s look at one date only: the 1921.

When the Morgan dollar was coined in 1921, it signaled the end of a 16-yearlong dry spell in

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